August 9th
With heavy thundery showers about we managed to get soaked as we walked along the seawall from Reculver. Birds we saw included 3 Little Egrets, 1 Blackcap, 9 Cormorants, 8 Goldfinches, 2 Pied Wagtails, 13 Sandwich Terns E, 10 Ringed Plovers, 4 Common Sandpipers, 1 Grey Heron, 5 Turnstone, 1 Shelduck W, 3 Sanderling, 2 Swallows W, 1 Redshank, 1 Yellow Wagtail, 18 Mediterranean Gulls E and 1 Fulmar W.